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One News, Editorial Radio Programs Sports FIFTY -SIXTH YEAH Lake Charles American Press Fat? Suns Jt tonight mad Friday. 48; highest Mdajr TO; moderate viadi. LAKE CHARLES, JANUARY 1956 22 PAGES NUKBEBllMft Preaus Wi Use Guard' to Enforce Law By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Former- State Highway Board Chairman Fred Preaus said he would use the National Guard to enforce his proposed strict law enforcement program as three candidates in the Louisiana governor's race touched on law en- BRAZIL'S CHIEF ARRIVES President-elect of Brazil, Juscelino Kufait- schefc, Jeftt-QCcampanied by Rear Admiral H. H. Henderson, Commander of the Key West Navy base, arrives fay plane to visit President Eisenhower.

(Ar Wircphoto) Chief Executive Visits Ike at Key West i i KEY WEST, Fla. is convalescing here from his Adm. H. H. Henderson; command- Kubitschek, President elect.

of Brazil, flew here today fo'r a breakfast visit with President- Eisenhower. Kubitschek's plane arrived Boca Chica airport at 7:43 a.m.>'the> first stop a'visit to "be United States. After, breakfast with Eisenhower, Sept. 24 heart attack, Kubitshek will fly on to Washington. A welcoming committee included this country's ambassador to Brazil, James C.

Dunn; Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Joao Carlos Muniz; and Rear REPORT FROM CIRCLEYILLE Circleville, -Jan. 5,: Editor: The Circleville Chamber of Commerce has postponed its regular January meeting out of deference to Congress. "We'll let them make the first members said. "Anybody with the job of cutting expenses and increasing spending and getting re-elected all in the same year deserves ail the quiet' he can get." Yours faithfully, H. B.

FOX. Blonde Girl Second Victim Of Mad Killer GREAT FALLS, Mont. body of a 16-year-old blonde, a bullet through her head, was found in a rocky ravine yesterday, eight miles from the lovers' lane where GreyemJberg Home Target Qf Burglars her' Air slain. Service sweetheart was Prtty Patricia Kalitzke's fully clothed body lay at the foot of a 20-foot embankment off a highway six miles northwest of this central Montana city. IKE SAYS BUDGET WILL BE BALANCED 'orcement.

Preaus, running with the blessing. of Gov Kennon, told a Shreveport' audience last night-he would an all-out enforcement program to rid the state of vice and corruption and improve the program of present administration. Former stale police Chief Francis Grevemberg lashed out again at New Orleans and said the brooms which swept vice out of the city lave "been taken over by other lands sweeping vice and corruption back in again." Alexandria cattleman James McLemore, again bidding for the governor's chair, said New Orleans Mayor deLesseps Morrison's handling of 'the police situation has shown he is "incapable of directing strict statewide law enforcement." Robert Predict Defeat For Integrated School Bills WASHINGTON M-Several Mississippi and Louisiana House members today predicted defeat for any aid segregation ant of the Key West Naval Base After breakfast, Eisenhower planned to record on film a cussion of his State of the Union message for use on television and radio after Congress receives the document. Secretary of Agriculture Benson and a group of advisers, arriving A-ui mci uuv. ijinie, iveni torught, will confer with the Pres- wood, said his opponents are mak ident tomorrow morning on the ing a' "political football joke" special farm message he plans to a 8e assistance.

5eAr i6 Congress Monday. That' message will be the first in a series on specific problems White House aides here said the Morrison, speaking at Forest Hill, said the other four candidates show by their criticisms of him that they know he is leading the race. Former Gov. Earl Long, BATON ROUGE broke into former state police Supt.j Francis Grevemberg's home last night. Deputies sale 1 the thieves ignored valuables and money and were apparently looking for something else candidate for governor's The girl's escort.

A.2.C. Lloyd Duane Bogle, 18, of Waco, was found face down beside his parked car Tuesday morning. His hands were bound behind his back. Burglars J- Le'eper said there He 50 had shot in the head. D.

s-W there was little doubt the same person killed both. The sheriff ruled out both sex and robbery as possible motives. He said Patricia apparently had not been attacked, and there was $5 in Bogle's wallet. In the home. Mrs.

Grevemberg returned home! about'midnight after a trip to New wer ne air Orieahs, found a light in the kitch- ce ncarby Malmstrom Air en and the house ransacked Alllf. orceT Base where le wa stationed, in searching for clues. "We are grabbing at every straw we can find," said Leeper. "We have a mad killer on the loose." Officers questioned friends of the two on the theory the shootings may have climaxed a love tri angle. that was missing from their new home in the fashionable Broadmoor subdivision was three inexpensive clocks.

Deputies said every drswer and cabinet in the house had been.ran- scked, but a revolver, small sums of money, a gold police badge and other valuables were untouched. The burglars cut a screen door and broke through a alass door in the rear to gain entry. Contacted in New Orleans, Grevemberg said, "Until I have oppor' tunity to familiarize myself with the case I would prefer not to comment." Fog Finally Clears In New York City NEW YORK London-like fog which blanketed the metropolitan area for two days moved out to sea last night and released its murky stranglehold on air, harbor and highway traffic. By midnight the city's were open. The liner Queen Mary, more than 13 hours behind schedule, sailed at 1:15 a.m.

Chep Morrison To Be in City Today DeLesseps, S. (Chep) Morrison, mayor of New Orleans and candidate for governor, will be in Lake Charles today to attend an "old time barbecue and rally" at his campaign headquarters at Broad and Ford streets. The meeting 'will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Among those attending will be Morrison, Lt Gov. C.

E. Barham, Mayor Sidney L. Gray, State Senator Robert Ainsworth, Dudley J. Le- farm problem is getting top prior- ity because of the great impor tance Eisenhower attaches to it For the first time since he came to Key West Dec. 27, the President yesterday, got in a day of complete leisure.

Last night he relaxed at the bridge table with three old friends Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, supreme commander of the NATO orces in Europe; William E. Rob- cson of New York, president of de Coca-Cola and George E. Mien, former Truman administra- ion official who owns a farm near he President's at Gettysburg, Pa.

72 Negroes Arrested in Bus Dispute NEW ORLEANS objection to segregated seating in' a city bus resulted in the arrest of 72 Negroes last night. Police answered a call from a transit company supervisor after the Negroes, many of them students at "Xavier University, refused to sit behind a sign dividing white and Negro passengers. The bus driver, Francis Roux, 36, told police some of the Negroes removed the sign. He said they had boarded the bus after a basketball game between Xavier and Dillard, another Negro university. James J.

Serpas was the only white passenger on the bus. Roux said the Negroes refused his order to replace the sign and sit behind it. He said hs halted the bus about four blocks away Preaus told audience he and his running mates "are no trying to destroy anyone else'. character, but we stand for a gov eminent for all the people and no one for just friends -of. some ma bill containing provisions.

He'said the highway program Kennon's administration show more miles of hard surfaced roads completed or placed under con struction or contract than any previous administration "in spite the two-cent reduction in the gas tax." Grevemberg trained his fire on Morrison. He said when Morrison became mayor of New Orleans in 1946, his family was part of th. broom brigade that swept vice out "But I discovered," Grevemberg said, "soon after I became super intendent of state police in 1952 that the brooms had been taken over by other hands, which were sweeping vice and corruption back in again." Grevemberg also included Long in his criticisms. He said in two previous times in office Long had attempt to enforce the McLemore also slapped at the Kennon administration which he said pardoned 72 persons convicted connection with illegal narcotic use and Long's former administrations, McLemore accused Long of raiding the welfare fund by taking 10 million dollars of the money and using it for other purposes than old age assistance. Long said he would provide an increase to per month immediately and said he had "come closer to carrying out my 194S platform than any governor.

The Southerners' view conflicted with a statement yesterday by Rep Powell (D-NY) that we've got the votes" to write such provisions into an education bill. Powell, a Negro said he intended to press the segregation issue on the House floor. A fight shaped up, therefore over what Speaker Rayburn (D Tex) has said will be the firs major piece of legislation to reach the House this year. A school aid bill Is pending In the rules committee but contains no integration or anti-segregation provision. If the.

measure is amended to bar segregation, the' Mississippi and Louisiana House members said, the bill won't pass. Rep. Colmer CD-Miss), chairman Benson Confers With Senators On Farm Hopes By B. L. LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON CB-The new suit which the administration hopes dress up its farm program was modeled for additional tailoring today before Republican members of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Secretary of agriculture Ben'son arranged to meet with the senators, as he did with House members yesterday, to discuss with hem the proposals he will suggest President Eisenhower recommend to Congress in a special message Monday. He also arranged to meet later vith Senators Ellender (b-La) and Aiken (R-Vt), the Democratic chairman and senior Republican the committee, before flying ate today to Key West, to make his recommendations to the President tomorrow. Ellender, saying Benson had invited him to discuss the program ir. advance, said. "I'm 'trying to keep this (farm legislation) out of politics." But Chairman Cooley (D-NC) of the House Agriculture Committee soured at private discussion with House committee Republicans yesterday, accused the secretary of wrapping the proposed farm program "in a shroud oi partisan politics." He added in a statement that Benson was "more concerned with angles ot this program good of the country." Rep.

Jensen (R-Iowa) called oh Congress meantime to bury political differences and get to work at Outlook Bright For Nation, Congress Told By ED CHEAGH WASHINGTON Eisenhower said today the budget will be in balance this fiscal year and next. He declared, however, a tax cut would be justifiable only if it would not put the government Into the red again. Eisenhower told Congress the nation's outlook is bright with promise" even though Soviet leaders have hown they "are not yet willing to create the indispens- conditions for a secure ind lasting peace." In his annual State oi the Union message, Eisenhower declared Russia has shifted Tom "violence and the threat of violence to reliance on division, enticement and of a Southern group organized several years ago to oppose civil rights legislation, told a reporter a segregation amendment would Jbe' the death kneel of the school''aid bill. Reps. -Willis (D-La) and Winstead (D-Miss) similar bills.

Colmer said Tie would like to see the House.go through the session without any civil rights controversy arising but added he doubts this is possible. He recalled that last year efforts were made to add an Integration amendment to the Army reserve bill. The ensuing Ight delayed passage of the act "or weeks. I once on farm relief legislation. In a speech prepared for House delivery, Jensen said neither Demo cj-a nor Republicans "shou)d take all the blame for the plight of the farmers." Jensen recommended a 11 somewhat similar to proposals Benson tentatively outlined th House members Republican yesterday.

committee As reported after the 0 gether, the main theme of the ad Queen Appoints York Archbishop tunucu iv LONDON Rt. Rev. Ar- said there would be cou- compensation from surplus farm thur Michael Ramsey, Bishop of FBI Arrests Check Suspects In New Orleans NEW ORLEANS tfV-FBl agents said yesterday that they had arrested Garland Akins, 20, of Hillsboro, who Is charged with issuing about $50,000 in bad checks during the past several months. Officers said Akins admitted his identity when.arrested. FBI.agent M.

Chiles said Akins was charged specifically with Interstate transportation of stolen property valued -in excess -of charge was based on -JL'he a new auto Chiles said Akins obtained fraudu lently in. Odessa, Tex. Chiles said Akins failed to return to, the Texas 'state priso'n after his release July 27 for a five-day reprieve while serving a 10-year sentence for swindling. "Although the fraudulent' checks issued by Akins have not been tabulated' through 'the national FBI headquarters in Washington, it is estimated they exceed the FBI said. Texas authorities want -Akins for failure to return to prison.

Chiles said. He added that the man also wanted in New Mexico, Okla homa and seven other states on charges of passing bad checks get-to- Interstate transportation of stolei -he ad- motor vehicles, mail fraud and the ministration program is expected interstate transportation of stolen to center on the "soil bank" idea property, of taking land out of production and using up existing crop surpluses. As one farmers volun tarily cutting acreage planted in surplus crops would be entitled to siderable opposition to any school aid bill in the House and that if it should contain some antt-segrega- ion requirement virtually all Southerners would oppose it. "It just couldn't pass under those circumstances," he said. Winstead said that while he fav- stocks now held by the govern- Durham since 1952, today was named Archbishop of York.

duplicity." To meet the Russian threat, fca called, among ether things, for a stepped -up foreign aid program and asked Congress "to grant llm- ited authority to make longer term commitments for assistance to such projects, to be fulfilled from appropriations to made In future fiscal years." Eisenhower's legislative program also called fon 1. A 25-blllton-dollar program of federal aid to highways as Congress failed to approve at the last session. Elsenhower suggested merely "an adequate plan of financing," rather than Insisting on the long-term borrowing program which toe highway plan to bog down last year. 2. Farm legislation, Including a son bank program as part of "a many-sided assault on the stubborn problems of surpluses, prices cosU and markets." The program will be detailed in a special message next week, 3.

A five-year program of aid to school building. This, too will be outlined In greater detail in a later message. 4. A two-year slum clearance program calling for 35,000 public housing unkf in each of thihro Creation a bipartisan eoai- mission to investigate charges that in some localities Negroes are being denied the right to The president said "we proud of the progress our people ment. Jensen suggested that farmers be permitted to buy surplus corn or wheat at 75 cents bushel in-ui yieiaic UL me U8 return for reducing their acreage land to succeed the late Dr.

Cyril Queen Elizabeth appointed the 51-year-old bishop as second ranking prelate of the Church of ffe strive to have every person and measured by what Is, allotments. For each acre left idle, farmers would be entitled to buy Garbett, who died Saturday. Dr. Garbett's ashes were fn- VJdk OQ1ICO Cl AH ored federal aid to schools he either 50 bushels of corn or 20 terred yesterday in York Minster, couldn't accept any bill eral strings attached." vv -j vi uuiu in icifeu ycsieiaay in iMinsier, "with fed-1 bushels of wheat from government the Saxon-Norman cathedral of the 'stocks. Archbishops of York.

A similar rally be held at Powell Hall from 5 to 8 p.m. for Negro voters. and called his supervisor, who summoned police. City Councilman Glenn P. Classen released all except one of the Negroes to the custody of Dr.

Albert Dent, president of Dillard. Police identififjd the person not paroled as Fanny Carver. 17. a Dillard student, who was booked with Long said Preaus and Morrison both have been supported by Kennon who "probably wrote the campaign platforms for both of them." Morrison said he hoped his opponents keep mentioning his name because "I could not buy all that advertising." Morrison urged the voters to "put your vote behind the strongest and (running mate C. E.

Barham." inciting peace. a riot and disturbing LISTEN TO A. C. KIRKPATRICK SPEAK1NR ON BEHALF OF HIS CAXWIDACY FOR ASSESSOR OVER KPLC THURSDAY 6:05 P.M. Political Ad) and Hear MAYOR C.

L. MARCANTEL CANDIDATE FOR STATE SENATOR In French and English Friday, Jan. 6th 6.45 p.m. KPLC-TV Channel 7 (Paid Political Ad) Misfinguett Dies PARIS Mistingttett, French music hall star for half a century vhose legs were once among the world's most famous, died today after a two-week illness. She was 82.

KAYOUCHE COULEE GOLF DRIVING RANGE Is now open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. On Goodman Road Norvh of Optlousas Street Off KlKlWAy 80 North TRAVIS BOMBEP. GRILL East Broad At Bin Ave. SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY 2 Stuffed Basket 50e Shrimp In The Baskev 50c Sprrcial HamhxirKers $1.00 Wat-A-Burgsr With Lb.

Meat 35c HE 3-92ftt CAR HO? WAJCTE3 effort civu we must expand this every front 'We must by color TITO AS TOURIST Yugoslavia's President Tito and his vife have following of aides and officials ns they visit on ancient during their ten-day and Congress to approve. Eisenhower Mid hoped "progress toward statehood" for Alaska also could at this session. 7. Revision of the hnmlgracioB law so the number of persons admitted to this country each yew (could be based on the 1959 ccnra rather than that of 1920. Eisen- also asked amendment ot jthe 1953 Refugee Relief Act so more immigrants can come from Greece and Italy and from the ranks of Iron Curtain escapees.

In his message, delivered to Congress while the President continued recuperation in Key West, from his heart attack, Elseo! hower declared: "I expect the budget to be in balance during the fiscal ending June 30, 1956. "I shall propose a balanced bod- for the next fiscal year enduut rune 30. 1957." He said present ixes "should be reduced when we rudently can." He added, however, Of high peacetime prarper- ty, such now exist, 'See Ike Says Budget. Pag I) NOTICE visit in Egypt. Mustafa Arcer, director of Hse Egyptian Antiquity deportment, points out an interesting object.

At right is Egypt- ion Premier Gamai Abdel Kisser. (AT Illness and am in EORGE W. WOODARD Tax Consultant Phone HE 3-5680.

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